ending
/ˈɛndɪŋ/ noun A2- A termination or conclusion.
- The last part of something. · The book has a happy ending.· The film has an unexpected ending.
- The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs"). · Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.
Plural endings
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Just then a piercing cry, ending in a sob, burst from the centre of the crowd, who encircled the lady who had before fainted, and who now fell into a violent fit of hysterics.
“My father and the Baron d’Épinay lived in the stormy times of which I only saw the ending,” said Villefort.
For a moment the idea of struggling crossed his mind, and of so ending the unexpected evil that had overtaken him.
“All right,” said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
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